Storm related power outages disrupts Amazon Web Services

A wave of violent storms sweeping through the mid-Atlantic following a day of record-setting heat in Washington, D.C., has knocked out power to nearly 2 million people, the Associated Press reports. Amazon’s web service, Amazon EC2, may have been affected, bringing Netflix, Pinterest, Instagram, and other services down with it.

“Amazon’s service health dashboard indicates that there are power issues in its North Virginia data center, most likely caused by severe storms in the region. The outage underscores the vulnerabilities of depending on the public cloud versus using your own data centers.”

Amazon reported at 11:54 CST that there services were back up and operating normally.